Deposed Tunisian President Ben Ali Said To Have Fled Country With 1.5 Tons Of Gold

Not shares of AAPL, not freeze dried MREs, not shotguns shells, not even €45 million European pieces of linen in a suitcase... Gold. And one wonders why all the physical silver and gold is slowly but surely disappearing from the distributors: someone should really check the cargo hold of Lloyd's, Jamie's and Vikram's G-6 planes...and of course the extra cargo holds in the private helicopter squadron of that "other" Ben, elsewhere now known lovingly with the adjective of Blackhawk (f/k/a Helicopter).

The family of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia would have fled with 1.5 tons of gold. It is an assumption of the French secret services, who try to understand how the day ended on Friday 14 January, which saw the departure of President and his family and the downfall of his regime.

According to information gathered in Tunis, Leila Trabelsi , the president's wife allegedly went to the Bank of Tunisia to look for gold bars. The governor refused. M me Ben Ali had called her husband, who had also initially refused, then surrendered. She then flew to Dubai, according to French news before leaving for Jeddah. "It seems that the wife of Ben Ali is a party with gold" , said a senior French official. "1.5 tonnes gold, that makes 45 million euros" , translated source.

Mr. Ben Ali, he does not believe his fall as fast. For proof, according to Paris, he recorded a new speech, which has not had time to appear. He would not leave the country voluntarily but would have been impeached. The army and the chief of staff who refused to fire on the crowd, have, according to European intelligence services played a leading role in the removal of Mr. Ben Ali.

The mode of departure of Mr. Ben Ali has also uncertainties. He seems to have found in the airspace of Malta, without a flight plan determined, stating that he did not, in his hasty departure from Tunisia, a precise destination. An Italian source said that the aircraft would not receive permission to land on the island. According to another hypothesis, the deposed president had left by helicopter for Tunis Malta, where he recovered his plane.

At least we now know that following the upcoming banking kleptocracy's
exodus from the US, Malta may well be the newest destination location
for every stripper in a 50 miles radius of Manhattan.

And like that Tunisia's official gold holdings (as per the WGC) are down by 23%:

The Annunaki also like our women as well. That pic that Robot posted yesterday of that beauty with all that gold on her better start carrying around some alien contraceptives if she doesn't want to have a mutant human/annunaki spawn growing inside of her!

Pretty close. Gold weights 1204 lbs. per cubic foot, so 3,000 lbs (1.5 tons) is about 2.5 cubic feet. A standard gold bar weighs about 30 lbs, so 100 of them will also get the job done. Just buy an extra seat and leave Mrs. Ali in Jeddah.

A lady at a Rotary luncheon was having trouble deciding between the pasta or chicken and a friend asked he why she'd consider the chicken at all as she's a vegan. To which vegan lady replied that she was only a part time vegan. And I pointed out that it was thus OK to have the pork rind sandwich as pigs eat vegetables and are thus vegetarians.

If the USA has 73.9% of its reserves held as gold and australia has 8.1% of gold held in its reserves, what has Australia got as "other" reserves that places its currency on par with the US? There are only 25million people in that country and yet their economy and currency is on par. Something seems out of kilter. Either the US has no gold and the market is discounting that, or the Australians have more gold than they are willing to admit. Maybe there are other reasons, but it just seems odd.

Perhaps the fact that everyone knows that the dollar is an options contract, and when time deterioration is taken into account, the dollar's value as a reserve asset (Australia and the world hold trillions) will eventually expire at zero. That should make the Aussie trump the USD (as a commodity backed currency). Deep storage bitches. Thae fact that it is not redeemable either, puts it in the same boat. The race to Zero is on. Does anyone know which currency option expires worthless first?

CFTC sellout Commisioners Jill Sommers and Scott Omalia figure it is in the best interests of the country that JPMorgan continue to pillage the silver market, because otherwise, without Jamie's helicopter full of silver, like the Tunisian Presidents, then the economy will collapse.

Its difficult to understand I know, but they know things we dont, even if Sommer's only credentials are a BA from the Midwest, and working as an intern for Bob Dole.

Dude, in Saudi he can lock the wife in a small dirty closet and bangall the skank, camels, goats and little boys his dark heart desires. He be in the Land-O'-Women be property, on par with worn shoe leather and used condoms.

Can you link to Canada selling it's gold? I know that Paul Martin had this to say about the coming currency crisis - (and I'm wondering WHO was responsible for Canada selling it's gold, if it indeed did so):

Former Canadian Prime Minister: Give Up Your Sovereignty To Make The World Work

If we can get them all to run to the caymans and charge them 5 lbs of gold for a tranny porn streaming. We'll set up studios and make "news reports" of rioting and murders while they are gone. Complete with interviews about how I wish the global economy had not collapsed it's so horrible right now. Make it an inside joke.

The British ton is the long ton, which is 2240 pounds, and the U.S. ton is the short ton which is 2000 pounds.

Both tons are actually defined in the same way. 1 ton is equal to 20 hundredweight. It is just the definition of the hundredweight that differs between countries. In the U.S. there are 100 pounds in the hundredweight, and in Britain there are 112 pounds in the hundredweight. This causes the actual weight of the ton to differ between countries.

To distinguish between the two tons, the smaller U.S. ton is called short, while the larger British ton is called long.

There is also an third type of ton called the metric ton, equal to 1000 kilograms, or approximately 2204 pounds. The metric ton is officially called tonne. The SI standard calls it tonne, but the U.S. Government recommends calling it metric ton.

Just wait until the United States collapses and Obama, Bennie, and his bankster co-conspriators leave the country in C-130's loaded with loot stolen from the citizens. As Bachman Turner Overdrive said "you ain't seen yet".

It's probably more of a statement about security and soldier psychology. You can endure war if you have a safe place to go home to and heal. Once you start shitting all over your home fort the paranoid schizophrenia gets you.

My uncle experienced this returning from vietnam. He's not a weasle he's a very caring indivdual who just got drafted and went to war. His first day home ended with his .45 to the head of a protestor who attacked him. He's gone on to rebel faithfully. He left accounting career when asked to do these bullshit enron accounting tricks.

The military will likely attack americans in a cohesive shocking manner but it will rapidly degrade into the paranoid schiozphrenia that it creates when soliders are faced with a situation that leaves commanders having personal helicopters and them having new boots and 210 rounds of ammunition and a hummer with shit gas mileage. The powers that be are only concerned with the here and now. They do not ask to what end. They do not wander too far away from any sort of conclusions that don't make them powerful. They replace foresight wtih pretending to see the future and then talk people into it.

Read it and weep folks. 30% of that gold is mine. I got an email from him several months ago requesting assistance in moving the money out of Tunisia. All I had to do was send him my bank account info, wiring instructions, and a small fee to show I was acting in good faith.

No worries. I have similar arrangements with people in other countries, many of them royalty. I am thinking of creating a fund (well-diversified geographically) and would be willing to sell you the equivalent in shares at a substantial discount.

Believe it or not, they are not even paying attention to stocks, either.

All they care about is:

- Which teams are to win the NFL playoffs and go to the Super Bowl

- Which teams are going to win in the March Madness NCAA tournament

- The eventual outcome of The Batchelor

- The number of pounds will Kim Kardashian lose this month

- Watching the next episode of Jersey Shore

- The launch of the next cool apps available for the new Tablets coming out this year

- Determining when Facebook will be able to start streaming Skype video calls

It is pretty much a lock that the sheeple will continue spending and living their merry lives, knowing that in the event of another "convulsion" in the financial markets or the economy, The Ben Bernank will do whatever is necessary to engage in "mop up" operations.

Want proof?

Just listen to Bob Brinker's monologue today, 8 minutes into the program.

Brinker's first caller had $2 million in Ca obligations, 40 percent of his net worth.

Brinker's advice, reduce that to less than 4 percent of NW due to risk of state default.. Caller was sobered and sounded like he would heed said advice. I wonder how many others are reducing their exposure to risky state's debt...

BEIJING—Chinese President Hu Jintao emphasized the need for cooperation with the U.S. in areas from new energy to space ahead of his visit to Washington this week, but he called the present U.S. dollar-dominated currency system a "product of the past" and highlighted moves to turn the yuan into a global currency.......

Unrelated Precious metals question: How long until a drop in spot translates to a drop in retailer's prices? apmex, scottsdale, bulliondirect all seem to be selling well above spot. Any suggestions on a good dealer? sorry for the tangent question.